The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1887-03-11

ready 20 adjust such balances and
apply such checks rs our impcr-
feet natures are constantly IN need
Of. In some respects home life
is the most eXacting and trying.
1t Is so because we must meet
and face whatever is disngrecablo
in it. We cannot turn away from
Il rs we may turn from the I'M
pleasant portions Of life outside
the'home. II often requires large
development Of patience and nm
llinehing courage ana industrious
habits. a lazy man ought never
to get married. Home duties are
toe eNacting for laziness II is
the husband duty, us we some
time since said. 70 assume a full
share of the duties that are pop
ularly supposed 70 be peculiarly
the wite's duties when he il nj
homo. 1t will not hurt him II
particle TO otliciate in the capacity
of mother to the extent that his
clumsy fingers and awkward ways
viii admit Certainly lie should
not expect 70 be coddlcd and en-
tertained as If he we're i baby.
lie is big enough 70 entertain him
self The average theory Of home
life i that the happiness Of home
depends solely upon the wife.
She is advised always to have the
husband S supper ready and hot,
y seems TO be supposed that she
has married a stomach; and we
admit that the stomach appears to
be all there is TO some men. She
IS urged to prinl and look pretty
as She did before marriage, but
very oflen she prinked and looked
pretty 70 please n very different
looking man than her husband
now IS. She is told always have
smile for the dear grumb-
ling, growing wild cat,
whose very presence casts d
gloom over the sunbeams that play
upon the hearthstone. 1t is all
nonsense. 1t is her duty to do no
more toward the happiness Of
home than the husband does. If
she can keep him still and pleasant
by filling his stomach, do it. If
he was foolish enough to marry a
cook instead Of hiring ono, fill
him with victuals according to
his expensive method. Is he il
determined to make a menagerie
Of his home by being bear, il is
perhaps wisdom to keep him quiet.
But with such a man there can be
no home. We never call the lair
OF the wild beast or the menageric
home. The sunshine that makes
home never laughs in such places.
The ilowers that are warmed into
bloom by the hearts love and
painted with beauty by tho warm
smile that lights up the faces about
the iireslde are what makes the
difference between home and the
stable. There are no clouds that
ever overhang the home that sun
beams, bright and warm ard Joys
Gus, cannot penetrate. Love and
reason, hope and aspiration, blend
IN glorious, gorgeous rainbow of
promise that arches the holy circle
and every heart, and even through
storms Of tears, smiles Of peace
shoot light which illumine the tear
drops until every one, hot and
blistering though they be, spark,
les with diamond beauty and with
hallowed glow. In the midst of
torturing Affections Of the icy cold
ness of an unsympathizing world
that Dllsters or ocnumbs the soul
for an instant it will find solace
upon the placid current Of home
love and home sympathy that are
ever as healing balm to the
wounded spirit or the check that
is scorched by grief. Such is
home and it fills the husband, wife
and child with reflection Of the
bright ideal Of home that Is the
product Of our longing and faith
in the promised fatherland Of
Cod Western Rural.